Jim Bragan

Baseball player and coach
The basics

Quick Facts

IntroBaseball player and coach
wasAthlete Baseball player
Work fieldSports
Gender
Male
Birth12 March 1929, Birmingham, Jefferson County, Alabama, U.S.A.
Death2 June 2001Westover, Shelby County, Alabama, U.S.A. (aged 72 years)
The details

Biography

James Alton Bragan (March 12, 1929 – June 2, 2001) was an infielder, manager and league president in American minor league baseball, a scout and coach at the Major League level, and a college baseball coach during a 40-plus year career in the game. He was the brother of Major League catcher, shortstop, manager and coach Bobby Bragan.

Born in Birmingham, Alabama, Jimmy Bragan attended Mississippi State University and played baseball in the Brooklyn Dodgers farm system in 1950–57. After his playing career ended, he was the manager of the Bluefield Dodgers in 1957 and then joined the Cincinnati Reds organization as a scout. He remained a scout with the Reds through 1966 and then spent time as a Major League coach with Cincinnati in 1967–69.

Bragan was the first base coach of the Montreal Expos in 1970 through early 1971, and the team's third base coach in 1972. He also was manager of the Expos' AAA Winnipeg Whips for the latter half of 1971, head baseball coach of Mississippi State University in 1975, and a coach with the Milwaukee Brewers in 1976–77. He was president of the AA Southern League in 1981–94, one of the most successful periods in that league's history. The league subsequently named Jimmy Bragan Executive of the Year Award in his honor. In 1994 he was presented with the King of Baseball award given by Minor League Baseball.

Bragan died in Westover, Alabama, in 2001 at the age of 72.

Baseball coaching record

SeasonTeamOverallConferenceStandingPostseason
Mississippi State (Southeastern Conference) (1909)
197516-246-1610thNA
Mississippi State:16-24 (.400)6-16 (.273)
Total:16-24 (.400)

      National champion         Postseason invitational champion  
      Conference regular season champion         Conference regular season and conference tournament champion
      Division regular season champion       Division regular season and conference tournament champion
      Conference tournament champion

The contents of this page are sourced from Wikipedia article. The contents are available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license.